First aid: I broke my Entropy

If you for whatever reason managed to break Entropy (equo) and aren’t able to update / upgrade / install any program using Entropy, you are screwed most likely because you could not update Entropy or reinstall equo to fix it.

It is very unlikely that you get into a situation like this but I’ve seen the most weird problems people get into and it could happen to you too! You install upgrades on your laptop and the battery went down in the middle of process, the cat pushed a button in the powerbox and the lights went out..etc

The alternative to fix Entropy is to install it using Portage. Here are the steps to take:

corrupt entropy databases is not rare eggs in real laptops upgrades scenarios when you do not have access to permanent power sources …

you batteries run out before entropy manage to complete his work and bang! corrupt database … you run with batteries pulled out, using AC source, one wrong move, poor laptop yanked out of power source and bang! corrupt database